quotes for a best friend

It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time. ~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time. ~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams



If we cannot be clever, we can always be kind. ~Alfred Fripp



For then shalt thou lift up thy face without spot; yea, thou shalt be stedfast, and shalt not fear: Because thou shalt forget thy misery, and remember it as waters that pass away: And thine age shall be clearer than the noonday; thou shalt shine forth, thou shalt be as the morning. ~Job 11:15-17



Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb-nail. ~Henry David Thoreau



Happiness is life served up with a scoop of acceptance, a topping of tolerance and sprinkles of hope, although chocolate sprinkles also work. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



You can owe nothing, if you give back its light to the sun. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin



I played as much golf as I could in North Dakota, but summer up there is pretty short. It usually falls on Tuesday. ~Mike Morley



Thanksgiving is nothing if not a glad and reverent lifting of the heart to God in honor and praise for His goodness. ~Robert Casper Lintner



The better the gambler, the worse the man. ~Publius Syrus



All of us are experts at practicing virtue at a distance. ~Theodore M. Hesburgh



The act of bellringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people. ~Ezra Pound



If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties. ~Francis Bacon



Even the most painstaking history is a bridge across an eternal mystery. ~Bruce Catton, Prefaces to History



I have learned the truth of the observation that the more one approaches great men the more one finds that they are men. ~Bernard M. Baruch



Whoever said "laughter is the best medicine" never had gonorrhea. ~Kat Likkel and John Hoberg, My Name Is Earl, "Robbed a Stoner Blind," original airdate 16 November 2006



Riding: The art of keeping a horse between you and the ground. ~Author Unknown



Never invest in any idea you can't illustrate with a crayon. ~Peter Lynch



Where would Christianity be if Jesus got eight to fifteen years with time off for good behavior? ~James Donovan



Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself. ~William Butler Yeats



Why do people give each other flowers? To celebrate various important occasions, they're killing living creatures? Why restrict it to plants? "Sweetheart, let's make up. Have this deceased squirrel." ~The Washington Post